When I went out and in as a missionary among the Chinese people for about thirty years, it sometimes occurred to me that only the inmates of their monasteries and the recluses of both systems should be enumerated as Buddhists and Taoists; but I was in the end constrained to widen that judgment, and to admit a considerable following of both among the people, who have neither received the tonsure nor assumed the yellow top.

Some are to be found who have never made a public profession of their faith and zeal, have naver assumed the tonsure, or taken the vows.

This is no shameless priest, like so many that disgrace the tonsure.

He had forgotten his tonsure.

The cap that hid his tonsure was of black velvet, and around the edges of it were rows of jewels that flashed in the sunlight, each stone being set in gold.

His head needed no tonsure for age had made him nearly bald.

He had in his early youth been destined for the priesthood, but like many another had been driven by the feelings and sympathies engendered by Italy's political struggles to abandon the tonsure for the sake of joining the "patriot" cause.

When they slipped back their hoods it was seen that two of the men wore the "tartar tonsure," after the fashion of the coast.

His head bore no tonsure.